Nicole Cowie, Author at Wired868

Nicole Cowie

Nicole Cowie is a mental health/disability activist, public speaker and writer. She is the creator of the viral Twitter hashtag, #DisabledSnark and has written both in the Catholic News and Outlish.com. She is a former recipient of the Wayne Narajit Prize for Social Disability Studies and the National Scholarship for Persons with Disabilities.

Being disabled in T&T; how the Disability Grant serves as a poverty trap

Sunday 16 June 2019 Health, Wellness 1

The Government in its 2019 Budget statement announced with great fanfare that the Disability Grant has increased from $1,800 to $2,000. A little extra cacada from the government always sounds good, not so? Let’s put this into real perspective. I asked Tyron Bishop, disability advocate, to talk about this his …